The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure brings together a variety of scholars and research across disciplines, with an emphasis on communication and gender studies, to work toward reimagining the idea of failure. Contributors consider failure as both a space for growth and repair and as a space from which hope can emerge. The collection is divided into five parts, investigating failure as consumption; failure as media; failure as pedagogy; failure as narrative; and finally, failure as transformation. Contributors spanning the fields of communication, gender, sexuality, performance, and media studies each employ unique disciplinary approaches to failure in their explorations of topics including queer counterpublics, corporeal commodification, misinformation, abolitionist principles, abuse and consent culture, and everyday organizing, among others. Looking to the future, the book takes these perspectives and experiences a step further to explore the reparative possibilities that may be found in failure.
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This edited collection brings together scholars in communication, gender, sexuality, performance, and media studies to share research on failure with an emphasis on communication and gender. Using multiple methodologies and theoretical frameworks, the chapters contribute to a deeper understanding of failure and its reparative possibilities.
Chapter 1: Forced to disband: Counterpublic consummatory issues and
queer failures
Crystal Stone
Chapter 2: Implicating failure: Corporeal commodification in the organization
of donor milk
Sarah E. Jones
Chapter 3: Embracing failure in Netflixs BONDiNG: Misinformation about kink
in season 1 addressed through character development in season 2
Jessica M. W. Kratzer
Stacie Meihaus Jankowski
Dakota Pannebecker
Nick Bliven
Chapter 4: The paradoxical corrective failures of That 90s Show: Reboots and
Contemporary Nostalgia in the Age of Streaming Television
Michaela D.E. Meyer
Skyler M. Tolzien-Orr
Savannah J. Lambie
Chapter 5: Queer failures in the gender communication and sexual
communication classroom
Michaela Frischherz
Michael Tristano Jr.
Chapter 6: Failing toward abolition: Embracing abolitionist principles in the
college classroom
Jennifer Potter
Elyshia Aseltine
Chapter 7: Navigating failed systems: An autoethnographic account of
documenting abuse and the call for trauma-informed approaches
Megan Alyssa Fletcher
Chapter 8: Triggered: Writing my way into consent culture
Danielle M. Stern
Chapter 9: Performing abject: Reclaiming the body and resignifying the abject
in performance
Desirée D. Rowe
Chapter 10: The transformative power of failure in everyday organizing:
Failures irony
Alana Nicastro
Rachel E. Silverman
Patricia Geist-Martin
Patty Sotirin
Laura L. Ellingson
Melanie Bailey Mills
Jessica M. W. Kratzer is associate professor of communication studies at Northern Kentucky University.
Desirée D. Rowe is associate professor of communication studies at Towson University.
